| DATE: | April 10th, 2026 |
| TIME: | 2:00pm to 4:00pm (PDT) |
| VENUE: | Hybrid Zoom Online meeting & In-Person at Sophos Inc. (Map) |
| TOPIC: | Threat Modeling in the Age of AI |
| PRESENTERS: | Adam Shostack (Presenting remotely) |
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ABSTRACT
How do we use the apparent magic of LLMs to help us threat model? What are the challenges? What works? What doesn’t? This 2026 talk contextualizes and models LLMs as friend and foe and then focuses on how to use LLMs as we develop more secure systems.
https://shostack.org/
BIOGRAPHY
Adam is the author of Threat Modeling: Designing for Securityhttps://shostack.org/books/threat-modeling-book and Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Warshttps://threatsbook.com. He’s a leading expert on threat modeling, a consultant, expert witness, and game designer. He has decades of experience delivering security. His experience ranges across the business world from founding startups to nearly a decade at Microsoft.
Beyond consulting and training, Shostack serves as a member of the Blackhat Review Board, an advisor to a variety of companies and academic institutions, and an Affiliate Professorhttps://homes.cs.washington.edu/~shostack/ at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.